Francis Chan Quotes
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'
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I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.
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You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.
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It's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight.
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The existing program, as it has been developed in the last 70 years, provides a stable monthly income that has prevented seniors, almost 50 percent from falling into poverty. I don't think we want to erode the principles of that system.
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Our Lord’s making of a disciple is supernatural. He does not build on any natural capacity of ours at all. God does not ask us to do the things that are naturally easy for us- He only asks us to do the things that we are perfectly fit to do through His grace, and that is where the cross we must bear will always come.
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At some moment I did answer "Yes" to someone or something. And from that hour on I was certain that existence is meaningful.
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What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
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We should learn and reflect to the best of our capacity, but when we reach a point where we are unable to make
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The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist - whatever you want to be - and still be a sexual being. It's not mutually exclusive.
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The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.
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The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.
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The Church is not a showboat; it's a battleship.
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I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour; And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike, In limbs that fester are not springlike.
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I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.
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There are outstanding blue cheese makers in America, and Berkshire Blue is one of them. It's really creamy and very flavorful. Michael has helped define American blue cheese.
